1982 Corvette Specifications

1982 options, quantities and original prices

• A 350 cubic inch, 200 hp engine, the automatic transmission and cloth or vinyl interior trim were included in the base price. T-tops and the leather and vinyl interior were included as well.
• There were no optional engines in 1982, and no manual transmission was available.
• The Collector Edition Hatchback Coupe included RPO CC1, C49, QXH, U75, special silver-beige paint, graduated hood and body decals, commemorative aluminium wheels, the frameless glass hatchback with manual remote release, accent pinstriping, multi-tone silver-beige leather seats and door trim, a leather wrapped steering wheel and horn cap, cloisonne emblems inside and out, and luxury carpeting. With the UN5 radio it cost $695 instead of $755.
• Exterior code 59 Silver Beige and interior code 592 silver-beige leather were exclusive to the Collector Edition Hatchback.
• Nine 1982 Corvettes had primer only.

1982 engine identification codes

The engine suffix code is stamped on the front of the block, on the pad ahead of the passenger-side cylinder head. Read it together with the VIN to confirm an engine belongs with the car.

Casting and component numbers

• Block: 14010207 on all engines.
• Cylinder head: 462624 on all engines.
• Throttle body injection: 17082052 for the rear unit, 17082053 for the front unit.
• Distributor: 1103479 on all engines.
• Alternator: 1101071, 1101075, 1103091 and 1103103.

The full casting number breakdown per engine, including intake and exhaust manifolds, is on the casting number page, and the carburetor numbers are on the carburetor page.

1982 VIN range

1982 Corvettes ran from 1G1AY8786C5100001 through 1G1AY8786C5125407, all built at Bowling Green. The sixth digit is a zero on Collector Edition cars, which carried their own body code and their own serial sequence. The ninth digit is a check code and varies from car to car. The VIN decoder breaks down each position, and the build date decoder works out roughly when in the year a car was assembled.

1982 production by month

• *Actual 1982 production was 25,407 as serial number 17 was lost.

1982 colors

• Exterior code 59 Silver Beige and interior code 592 were exclusive to the Collector Edition Hatchback.
• Nine 1982 Corvettes had primer only.
• Paint quantities do not always add up to total production, because some cars were built with non-standard paint or left in primer only.
• Which interior trims went with which paint is set out in full on the exterior and interior combination page, along with the trim codes.

1982 axle ratios

The axle code is stamped on the differential carrier housing. The full list for every year is on the axle code page.

What changed for 1982

• Cross-Fire Injection arrived, the first fuel injected Corvette since 1965. It was not the mechanical injection of 1957 to 1965: it combined two injectors with Computer Command Control, refined in 1982 to make about eighty adjustments per second, ten times the previous year's rate.
• The automatic was a new four-speed with a torque converter clutch operating in the top three gears and a higher first gear ratio of 3.07:1.
• Hoods had solenoid-operated doors that directed fresh air into the air cleaner at full throttle.
• A positive fuel cutoff replaced the 1981 fuel metering system to prevent run-on, and the charcoal air filtering element was replaced by a paper one.
• The exhaust used a smaller, lighter catalytic converter, with the pipes redesigned to deliver hotter gases to it and raise its efficiency.
• The Collector Edition brought the first lifting rear glass on a Corvette, and at $22,537.59 the first base price over twenty thousand dollars.

What the manual covers

The 1982 book runs 75 pages: the Black Book summary sheets with the full option and colour lists, the engine assembly identification diagrams, the rear axle field identification chart, and the Corvette value features and interior features spreads from the dealer material.

For part numbers and exploded illustrations rather than specifications, the parts manuals are the companion set. Other model years are on the specification manuals page.